Word: aneurysm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
...When a blood clot in a coronary artery causes a heart attack, one result may be an aneurysm-something like a big blister-bulging from the heart muscle. Drs. William Likoff and Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital report what is believed to be the first successful operation to remove one. A man of 56, formerly bedridden, has been, able to climb stairs without distress since the operation 15 months...
...fine figure of a man. But for months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed where the artery's walls had been weakened by disease, was so big (8 in. across) that it was pushing organs...
...unthinkable until a few years ago. Recently, however, with the setting up of artery banks, more and more daring surgical feats of this type have succeeded. In last week's A.M.A. Journal, the two Houston doctors reported on what they believe is the first successful operation on an aneurysm high in the chest...